Phthalo haze

New paintings from the last few month. I seem to be lost in a dream vision of phthalo blue, green and purple.

 

 "Birth" acrylic on canvas.

 "Butterfly daze" watercolor on Arches paper.

"ice flowers" watercolor on Fabriano paper.

Bialowieza

I cant quite decide if I'm finished with this watercolor piece or not. I am aware that I still  try to paint with watercolors like I would with acrylics, so I don't  want to overwork it. Maybe a few more delicate touches on the hair and a couple more reflections on the water. This is based on a picture of the Bialowieza forest in Poland. The forest is one of the last remnants of old growth lowland forest left in Europe and one of the places I most want to visit. Once the forest covered most of Europe and was know as the "Hercynian forest" or "Hercynia silva" in Latin, which is the what this blog is named after.

In other news, I have also been screen printing some bags and tshirts. I love the soft misty effects I got by using watery washes of dye. I have some tops already listed on etsy and more are on the way.
 https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/styx2stars

trees like company.

Another little water colour completed. I had this one siting around half finished for ages not knowing what it needed the pine tree wasn't working and it was to somehow laking. Then i decided to put the background trees in and the pine tree obviously glad of the company worked itself out just like that.